We are given certain things in life, things we cannot change, just like cards we are dealt. The color of our skin, the first language we learn, who our parents are and what trauma do they carry. Some of these things blessings. Others? Not so much.

Though beginnings can never be changed, bad ones can be compensated for. They can be overcome. A woman with scars is still a woman. My fate is what I was given at the beginning of my life, and my destiny is where I find it.